James Darren famous for his work on movies like gig and TV shows like TJ hooker and Star Trek Deep Space 9 is dead the veteran actor died peacefully in his sleep Monday at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles his son Jim Moret confirmed to TMZ James became a Teen Idol back in the day when he played a surfer known as Mundi on 1959's gig and its two sequels gig goes Hawaiian and gig goes to Rome on TV James had a recurring role on TJ hooker as police officer Jim Corgan appearing in 66 episodes across Four Seasons in addition to acting James enjoyed a successful career as a singer and he also directed a variety of TV episodes on shows like Melrose Place Beverly Hills 9,210 and the 18 among others James sang the theme song for gig and performed another track in the click and in 1961 he reached number three on the Billboard charts With Goodbye cruel world he survived by his three sons and five grandkids James was 88